At Computex 2009 in Taipei, Taiwan, Intel’s Taiwan OEMs made an announcement that together they have sold more than one billion Intel-based desktop PC motherboards. These include motherboards dating back to the original 808x microprocessors, all the way forward to today’s most advanced 64-bit systems, including not only x86 and Xeon/Core designs, but also Itanium and EPIC designs.

Intel congratulates the Taiwan tech industry on reaching this historic milestone. This milestone is another signal that the desktop PC is not dead and that computer users continue to crave the processing power, graphics and storage capabilities that desktop PCs provide.

Rick’s Opinion
To put this number into perspective, cell phone sales reached the one billion mark (sales per year) in 2007 for the first time ever. It was reported about the same time last year (June, 2008) that there were now one billion computers in use world-wide. These were active computers, by the way, not including ones people had thrown away or recycled.